Already Gone

From the album 'Ghost on the Car Radio'
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Already Gone
from the album: Slaid Cleaves - 'Ghost on the Car Radio'

Young love breaks like a wave on the shoreline
A rolling crash and it's gone
Swirling around and around in the chaos
Gathering strength just to move on

Time and again we're crushed and we're battered
Playing the fool's part again
Over and over we try and we fail
To figure out this game we're all in

Time's running out and you can't help believing but
Here you are now at the end of the song
Down fall the tears when you hear the silence
When you finally know that you're already gone

One more town one more job another chance now
I'm down to muscle and nerve
May not have gotten all that I dreamed of
Pretty sure I got what I deserved

Through the years you grasp and you hold on
To a little dream that won't die
Only to watch it recede along with
All the garbage gone out with the tide

Time's running out and you can't help believing but
Here you are now at the end of the song
Down fall the tears when you hear the silence
When you finally know that you're already gone

Heard an old ghost on the car radio
Under a diamond sky
Sang along as the wheels beneath me rolled
Cast my troubles out into the night

Got no option to turn back now as I
Ponder forgiveness and sin
Feel the weight lift up off my shoulders
Feel some kind of mercy in the wind

Time's running out and you can't help believing but
Here you are now at the end of the song
Down fall the tears when you hear the silence
When you finally know that you're already gone


Slaid Cleaves, Magic Rat Music BMI

video edited by Fred Remmert

drums: John Chipman
bass: Harmoni Kelley
electric guitar: Scrappy Jud Newcomb

produced by Scrappy Jud Newcomb
recorded by David Boyle at Churchhouse, East Austin, Texas
mixed and mastered by Fred Remmert, Austin, Texas